The Best Documentaries of 2020 Provide Critical Insight Into The World Around Us

It's about that time of year: Where we dig through our Netflix histories, pour back over notes, even think about something we saw in a movie theater! Let's tally up which films will stick with us past a year where we had all the time in the world to watch too many of them. Let's rail off some documentaries, which just might be our most reliably stellar genre nowadays, with production companies pouring resources in an attempt to fuel our true-crime-heavy algorithms. We had our best crop of sports docs in quite some time, with Be Water and The Last Dance keeping up inspired (and hopefully, working out) this summer. Then, of course, we had the too-crazy-to-be-true stories, like Class Action Park and Tiger King. Regardless of your jam, there's probably something for you on our list of best documentaries of 2020.